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Replanting trees

  • 18-05-2014 11:32am
    #1
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭


    Looking for advice/information here folks. Neighbours here have a digger in doing a bit and was informed that he plans to track the birch trees that he was around the house into the ground.

    I looked for a few as they are around 7 years old and about 15 ft tall. I know it might be the wrong time of the year and all but I want to re home them and save them from being tracked over.

    I dug the holes 2 foot deep. Is this deep enough as the ground got very tough at this depth. When I replant them is it worth throwing some dung down the hole with them to help them along


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  • #2
    mayota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,563 ✭✭✭mayota


    Make sure you get a good size rootball with plenty of soil. Careful not to bury them too deep as moisture needs to reach roots. Try it anyway, as you say the trees are gone otherwise.


  • #3
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    mayota wrote: »
    Make sure you get a good size rootball with plenty of soil. Careful not to bury them too deep as moisture needs to reach roots. Try it anyway, as you say the trees are gone otherwise.

    I'll get the digger to lift the root straight into the dump trailer. It has the 3 ft digging bucket on anyways


  • #4
    periodictable
    Closed Accounts Posts: 931 ✭✭✭periodictable


    If you take a big lump of soil that the roots are in, you should have no problem, especially as there is heavy rain forecast on/off for the next few days. Make sure to water the trees when you do plant, and forget the dung...birch is a pioneer species i.e. one of the first trees to grow on bare ground and thus enrich it for other bigger tree species.


  • #5
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,546 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    periodictable wrote: »
    If you take a big lump of soil that the roots are in, you should have no problem, especially as there is heavy rain forecast on/off for the next few days. Make sure to water the trees when you do plant, and forget the dung...birch is a pioneer species i.e. one of the first trees to grow on bare ground and thus enrich it for other bigger tree species.
    Cheers for that


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